Show I TALES OF UNCASY SKULLS IXfG1I1e Stories of Murdered Men and Women from Various Sources Thero Is a skull Bald to bo that o B negro murdered by his master rt Roman Catholic priest at Bctlls combe house near Hrldport In Dor letshlre Several attempts It Is said have been made to bury or othirwlsj i dispose of this skull with the Invariable In-variable results of dreadful scream proceeding from the grave unaccountable unaccount-able disturbances about the house antI other equally unnlrnmmt occurrences An account of the bouo and snill oil the authority of Dr Hlcharl Gar nctt lll be found In Ingraini Hatintd Homes I and Panlly Legends second serlo jwe 19 lu the same volume at page CiS I a no Ice of another lnnntrl I hciut Ilurtoi Agues Hull near Brl llngton Her the sKnll Is lion cf a lay of ti Boynton family who was nttae anti murdered by two rntllanv mendicants men-dicants In tho rtlti > nth rcntirv Before Be-fore she expired she Implori h r ils tors to Preserve her skull In fir fn > fly mansion which was tin bMn built This was nnt done ut flr < < but finally tin sItters win1 ci > v Ii i1 1 to comply with this srnge reiiif t by the nolsrs resellblIn claps ot thunder which lesoiindod till 1Ith the house every night until tho skull van taken from tho grave Several attempts at-tempts have been made to bury it wlth tho same results as at B Ills combs At page 257 Is a rather unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory DivHint of a Flail said to Ix mat of a murdered holross kept at Tunsttud Farmhouse near Chapel enleFrlth Derbyshire j I The Skull House Is the title ot pno of Itobys Traditions of Lan cash lie The house referred to Is 1 Worsley or ns It Is sometimes called Wardley Hall an ancient building t bout seven miles west from Manchester Manches-ter It was nn old seat of the pownes family of which a member who lived In the seventeenth century appears to have been In the habit of i rst getting moro wine Into his skull than was good for him and then brawling with his brother sons of Belial In the London streets In one of these nocturnal ramblos he was jellied and hli head was sent to hiS sisters as an announcement of hIs fate They In vain tried to bury It and were only able to secure respite from the hauntlfigs by placing It In Ix nlcho on the staircase of the hall Tlio iipcnllnrlv linrvlliln illRtlirll r uncos at HInton Sumpner Manor House In 1770 have been narrated In more than ono collection of ghost stories sto-ries The fullest account is to bo found in the Gentlemans Magazine for November and December 1872 It Is there mentioned that when tho house was being taken down in 1797 there was found by the workmen under the floor of one of tho rooms a small skull said to bo that of a monkey but the matter was never brought forward by any regular In julry or professional opinion resorted lo as to tho real nature of the skull |